NEW APARTMENT

I did it! I beat the Warrens! No more head/vagina monsters for me! Yay!

Also went to see Paul today. I'm so glad I did; the movie itself is hilarious and Paul is such a great character. I think I might have to download it until it comes out on Blu Ray so I can watch it again ^_^

Anyway! I felt inspired today so I finally finished an apartment I had been working on.



It's set over two stories but it's still on the small side like all my builds. There are a few other livable spaces too, about 4 or 5 I think but only 2 are actually set over 2 levels.

I might put this one on the exchange, I'm not sure :/

RANDOM PICS

W00t for Christmas... and a random pic spam starring my latest sim Ethan and his new pad :D

TS3 & HARRY POTTER

OK I have a trivia question!

What do The Sims and Harry Potter have in common?

Well; those of sound mind will think that there is nothing in common between these two games other than that vile EA logo lurking somewhere on the packaging but according to EA they have a lot more in common than that.

Enough in common in fact to feature rather prominantly on the TS3 main page o.O

...I wonder if I were to spam the forum with off-topic threads about Harry Potter whether I would be banned. Given that it's on the TS3 site it MUST be related to The Sims and therefore perfectly acceptable to talk about :>

£10 says the next SP is TS3 Royal Life - make your very own William and Kate! :D (can't you tell I'm British? Half an hour after hearing the news I already became sick of hearing about it XDD)

In other news; my new computer is freakin' EPIC! ^_^

LATE NIGHT - APARTMENT

Right. Bridgeport has been getting on my nerves. Aside from my graphics card having issues with rendering it I'm finding it really difficult to navigate, my sims are obsessed with the subways and it takes them forever to get anywhere. Besides I missed suburbia - the solution? Get a small neighbourhood, do half as the city and half as the suburbs. Problem solved!

Loving Late Night though... still XD

Even moreso now I've figured out how to mod apartments.

Now all I need to do is find all the apartments that EA for no logical reason decided to hide. I mean REALLY EA? Are you that obsessed about us using your own pre-made shit that you wouldn't make the apartment shells available for general use? UGH. The lots I have are too small for the pre-made lots; I'm sure some of them is just because EA stuck an apartment on a lot that was bigger than necessary.

LATE NIGHT PICTURES

I've taken loads of piccies from Late Night; here's just a few of them since I've yet to figure out how to hide the rest ^_^;

Vampy Niwa is disturbingly hot... XDD


Still shakin' his thaang


Mmm. Plasma *drool*

Keyboard is his passion

His girl wanted to become a vampire. It was only right that he turned her.

ZHOU-PAOLI BOUTIQUE - COMPLETE

Well I've finished. I think I just have to face facts that I'm pretty shit at doing exteriors. Ahh well!

I've tweaked a couple of things here and there since I posted pictures, most of it was just interior design crap.

These are the stairs that lead down to the tattoo parlour downstairs.

Bathroom. It wouldn't be a classy boutique without one.

The tattoo parlour downstairs in the basement.

I did a bit of play testing on this lot but my game wasn't coopreating. For some reason when I spoke to the tattooist the action kept dropping out. I sent Vincent downstairs to check the place was accessible and it was but then the tattooist went and buggered off so I couldn't try it again.

I think the problem was the chair; I'd used Moveobjects to place it further against the wall so I could fit in the drawers diagonally but I've sinced moved it. The chair is pretty much in the same place but on its proper grid and the drawers are no longer positioned diagonally. I hope that fixed the problem.

Yeah... I forgot to take a new picture.

Vincent's right at home ^_^

Right; I couldn't begin to list the location of the CC in here. Some of this CC I picked up from downloading somebody else's house. I've grabbed as much of it as I can identify from my mods folder and dropped it into the zip file.

**Note: Not all of the file names were particularly clear. Blame the CC creators since I never re-name any CC I get. I hope this is OK ^_^; I've probably put in more CC than what I have actually used; this is due to a few dodgy file names and my tendency to add a crapload of CC all at once so I never know what name spawned what object. I'm SO sorry if I missed anything.

Straight away I know that the graffiti on the wall behind Vincent will NOT be in the rar file. I couldn't find it, sorry ^_^;

I have also included CC called 'Darkslayer's Paintings'. These were my first and only venture into the TSR workshop. NONE of the artwork is mine and I haven't had permission which is why I've never officially shared it. I've used these paintings in my game a lot and I haven't had issues but if you happen to have issues with it please let me know.**

Phew! I think that's everything.

Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?ah2st2o37pok2o4

On another note how do make it so that you can have like a 'read more' link on here so people aren't forced to wait for their internet to load all my long posts?

Edit: Whoops! I forgot to mention that I've included the fully furnished lot and the shell. I'm sure there are a lot of people who'll do a better job at it than me, I'm not really a builder ^_^;

TATTOO PARLOUR - PICCIES

Since the tattoo parlour was only small it didn't take me long to decorate and furnish it.

The waiting area. I know that tattoo parlours have to be hygenic and all but I've yet to seen a clinical tattoo parlour with white walls and stainless steel fittings XD

The chair of doom! :D

Random shot of some sinks ^_^

BOUTIQUE/TATTOO PARLOR - WIP

So my gym was a flop. I'm not quite sure what went wrong with it but when I play tested it my sims threw an absolute fit so it's gone now.

In it's space I've decided to start on a small project I've had in mind for some time; a boutique/tattoo parlour.

I've gotten the basic structure of the boutique down. It's currently unfurnished apart from a small fireplace but I'm liking the space so far.

I'll probably start on the tattoo parlour which is located down in the basement tomorrow.

The exterior; the terrain paints come from TSR but as that site is the devil incarnate you can also get them from APMBD. I think Cyclonesue made them (of course APMBD may also be a devil incarnate - I'll leave it to you guys to choose your poison :D)

Just a quick snapshot of some of the space. I got the wood texture from TSR. I forget who from though but it was a freebie. That stupid plant is still poking through the wall. I've moved it around about 4 times already ¬¬

The lone part I can call furnished. No CC used here. I'm planning to transfer these lots to my new computer when I get it so aside from flooring and the like I'm trying not to use too much CC because it's likely I won't be able to find it again.

FITNESS FRE@KS - UPDATE

I hated how bland the exterior looked on my gym and those godawful windows so I changed things up a bit. Things are pretty much the same but I scaled back the wall on the second floor and added a half-fence instead. I'll probably put a hottub on that space once I get LN.

I changed those windows. I had to, they were just too horrible. I think it looks a lot better now.

And yay! Aside from an annoying empty spot on the ground floor that I purposely left out of shot it's fully furnished! :D

FITNESS FRE@KS

I'm still not sure why I'm fiddling around with TS3 right now when I'll be losing everything in another month or so but I've been inspired and so I've decided to create. I figure if I don't use any CC then I can just store them on the exchange before I have to completely re-install the game on my new computer.

I'm in the process of building a gym. I pretty much have the building itself finished (although there's something about those smaller windows that I really don't like). I hate the fact that it doesn't have a roof but I have difficulties making roofs with diagonal parts look good. I'd auto-roof it but that tends to look terrible as well :/



This is the ground floor. I've put in a small lap pool but aside from the two different pieces of gym equipment I have I haven't decided what to fill the rest of this place with. I made the lot a little bit too big I think... at least for my usual furnishing tastes.


Upstairs. Again I haven't quite figured out what I'm going to put in here yet ^_^;

NEW SIMS - BLAINE & BLAIR STARWIND

Busy-busy-busy~. I finally got my computer to remember it has a DVD drive after a whopping 8 reboots ¬¬ poor ol' girl.

Anyway I've been feeling rather creative lately so in light of this I've made two more new sims to live on my motel lot... that I might actually turn into a really cheap, shitty apartment complex instead since I didn't want all the rooms to have the same decor which a motel probably would.

Blair and Blaine are twins who share a room at the motel/apartment. Blair is a hot-headed firecracker wheras Blaine is ice-cold. Both are pretty nasty bruisiers.

Blair:

CC List:

Default Replacement Skintone: 'Asian' MTS
Default Replacement Eyes: Subaxi

Ear Sliders: MTS

Body Sliders: MTS (you'll need to download the mod to add additional sliders to use them all)

Eyebrows: Subaxi
Hair: Peggy/APMBD

Blush: Lemonleaf

Top: Lilli

Pants: EA Store/MATY

Download: http://www.mediafire/?a6d1u2jvc5h4dov

Blaine:

CC List:

Default Replacement Skintone: 'Asian' MTS

Default Replacement Eyes: Subaxi
Ear Sliders: MTS
Eyebrows: Subaxi
Eyeshadow: Ladyfrontbum (can be downloaded at MTS)

Top: Darko

Pants: MTS

Hair: Peggy/APMBD

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?1te63mhfrfm16er

Bonus piccie of Vincent and Blaine chillaxin'... sort of XD

VINCENT'S MOTEL ROOM

Just a couple of shots of Vincent's motel room. The exterior is still very much a work in progress as is his poxy little bathroom so there's no photos of that just yet.

FINISHED SIM - VINCENT COLE

I made some alterations to Vincent's face and I'm pretty happy with the way he looks now so I've moved him into his little motel room.

It's late here (2:30am) so I'll get him uploaded later. For now I've taken some more piccies of my finished sim.

Edit: Download link below ^_^

Edit: Whoops! Forgot the CC list.

Default Replacement Skin: 'Asian' skin from MTS
Default Replacement Eyes: Subaxi
Ear Sliders: MTS
Hair: EA Store/MATY
Top: EA Store/MATY
Bottom: Club Crimsyn
Wound: Tifa

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?v2o64jighcb0vdh